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This is theft. It is wrong. It is an assault on the millions of ACF users. It is a hostile takeover; NOT a fork. It is vengeful, and mean spirited. MM has lost all of my respect, and this will affect the contributions of the entire community; not just WP Engine.
Perhaps WP Engine will fork WordPress; create its own repo; then provide lucrative benefits to all plugin providers to abandon WordPress.org and place their plugins in a new repo. Touche!
Perhaps WP Engine will contact the Class Action Lawsuit lawyers, and on behalf of the ACF community who has been harmed by these wrongful actions, file a Class Action suit against Automattic, MM and WordPress.org.
When the Mad King goes nuclear against millions of users he is now impacting the entire ecosystem. Shame on you MM…
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GPL allows it, so it’s ethical?
This is comparable to when Woo forked another e-commerce plugin then hired away its developers. I doubt this fork will move forward nearly as well as ACF because it was not really forked in the to improve things as in the spirit of the GPL. It was forked to punish a competitor of the regrettably named WordPress.com.
I hate to criticize but nearly all of this has been ugly behavior by someone who otherwise has been rational and polite. Please reconsider your tactics.
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Just had my review of Secure Custom Fields deleted by a moderator who said it was a review of Matt and that I could review Matt on social media. Since I’m not on social media and apparently am not allowed to use Matt’s name in a plugin review, I’ll post it here.
“This was a highly successful and useful plugin that helped make WordPress more than a blog by making it easy to add custom fields and post types.
I cannot recommend it because it is no longer controlled by its owners. WordPress.org, under the leadership of Automattic’s CEO, has renamed the plugin and taken it over entirely. They did not fork it and make a new plugin on WordPress.org.
They are doing this to punish a competitor of Automattic, plain and simple. Go to Advanced Custom Fields website to get the real thing. The free version is there and they provide a separate plugin for automatically updating it from their server.
It is sad to see how Matt Mullenweg has behaved and I hope he turns this around. He’s done a great job for two decades up until this point.”
Hopefully this comment will not also be censored (Matt controls this blog too) because if WordPress is not free and open and the community cannot say their opinion on a plugin, then you can all go to hell and I will go to Texas.
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